Author: Bar-B-Q
BSP date: October 18, 2002
Included in 2.6
Fun Time Lava! can only be described as a troll map and I have no idea why it was ever included in the game. It’s a simple box filled with bobbing platforms, each one moving at a different speed and out of phase with others. If you miss a jump, you fall into lava and die. The lack of walljumps in 2.x makes moving around a real pain.
🧵 1/2
Author: Carl-Magnus “NRGizeR” Björkell
BSP date: August 3, 2000 (July 31 in the readme)
Included in 1.x
Crown Hotel, being one of the original default maps, enjoyed outsize popularity in the early days of the mod, but quickly fell out of favor as third-party mappers started producing more interesting layouts. When 2.0 was released, this map was abandoned by both the dev team and players.
According to the readme, it was inspired by an AQ2 map called Asylum.
🧵 1/4
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_poseidon.pk3
Author: b33f
BSP date: September 9, 2004
Poseidon is a public aquarium, created for MidgetKiller’s mapping contest. While the Wayback Machine hasn’t archived the contest results page, statistics in the UT Map Depot sidebar show that in October 2004 it was the most downloaded map on the server: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010045247/http://www.ut.map-depot.com/news.php/
🧵 1/4
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_escher.pk3
BSP date: December 20, 2002
Author: [DesRat]Prodigy
World-of-Escher (or “a world of escher paintings”, as the levelshot says) is inspired by M. C. Escher’s artworks; unfortunately, as his impossible shapes are impossible to replicate in 3D space, the actual Escher-inspired bits of the map look pretty plain and unremarkable.
The missing texture visible in some shots is ozedood/concrete.tga from some unidentified third-party map.
🧵 1/6
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_crossing_beta-4e6376d5.pk3
Author: MasHeeN
BSP date: July 24, 2002
This is a *very* early version of Crossing. You can sort of recognize the general layout, but there are hardly any interior spaces, buildings have odd proportions, there are unexpected sheds, gantries, chimneys… The map is full of holes and visible caulk and fragments of hastily moved stuff. It’s only playable in the most basic sense that you can spawn and run around.
🧵 1/8
https://urt.li/q3ut4/lsutmap1.pk3
Author: LordSquart
BSP date: February 15, 2001
Hollywood Holocaust is the first map (E1L1) of Duke Nukem 3D. This is a reasonably close recreation, down to the reused textures, but not identical to the original. The cinema is different, some paths are missing and the rooftops form a playable area in their own right.
There’s another version of this PK3 that includes env/c2nite sky: https://urt.li/q3ut4/MAP_lsutmap1.pk3 Both are equally b0rked on 4.3.
🧵 1/4
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_pacman.pk3
Author: Dan Barrett aka FSK405 wily duck
BSP date: January 22, 2006
“You legal boys over at Namco, if you're really concerned about "using the image" and whatnot, I've got a game design for a new pacman that I guarantee will bring in a new and existing base of fans, that Namco would appreciate in revenue dollars.”
You’re a pac-man and shoot other pac-men and -women. The breakable dots don’t give you any points; the ghosts are harmless.
🧵 1/3
Author: Wu
BSP date: November 8, 2002
Included in 2.6 and 3.0
Veni, vulgi, vanesci. Emperor Wu appeared out of nowhere, dropped one of the most popular maps of all time in our laps and left.
In the first version of Turnpike, the station and garden area is noticeably different (I’m not even sure it’s possible to perform the van jump in this version). The station is plastered with advertisements for Dub Light beer that’s supposed to get you “Really F’d Up.”
🧵 1/4
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_chicago.pk3
Author: Jobson Devlin, aka Devlin
BSP date: April 18, 2002
The Slums of Chicago is Devlin’s third map after Kriegerhorn and Japanese Gardens. According to the readme, it takes place after the ambush and murder of two cops (you can see their burning car on the street).
This is another fairly dark map, presumably because getting shot from the shadows is an incredibly gangsta way to go. Only FFA, TDM and TS are supported.
🧵 1/6
https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_canyon.pk3
Author: Jonathan “$NulL” Norton
BSP date: September 9, 2004
Like Alps, Canyon is another ut.map-depot.com mapping contest entry. This is a fairly plain-looking map, all orange rock walls (and some dark caves), bisected by a river that can be crossed via two bridges. An eagle circles overhead, screaming like a pissed-off cat. The waterfall on the levelshot is animated, as well as the sky in the actual map.
🧵 1/3
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